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4.5
Gopan is a game changer. It makes fresh GF bread from grains of rice (it grinds its own rice flour!) and is the best rice bread I've ever made or had.The ingredients to a basic rice bread are as follows: Asian rice (I use white rice), water, sugar (I use coconut sugar), salt, oil, yeast, and rice flour (superfine). No preservatives, no additives, no strange ingredients you see in so many GF recipes. It takes me about five minutes to put the ingredients together the night before, and in the morning, our family wakes up to fresh rice bread (takes about four hours; you can use a delayed timer overnight).The machine is imported from Japan and marketed for Japan. Everything you receive will be in Japanese, including the manual and voltage (100 V). We bought one for a family in the U.S., along with a transformer. https://www.amazon.com/VCT-VT-1000J-Japanese-Transformer-Converts/dp/B000PC4SVU?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0It worked beautifully.The machine also comes with a "Cook Book" of recipes in Japanese, one of which is for GF bread (page 11). It helps to have a digital scale to measure the ingredients (in grams). Note: you can make all different kinds of breads with this machine, both GF and regular, so when you are baking GF, make sure "お米小麦ゼロ" (which means no wheat) has been selected on your machine's settings. Otherwise, the bread won't rise as well.At the time of this review, there are three models. SPM-RB1000 (Sanyo) is the first generation and oldest model. The second generation (Panasonic) is reviewed here, SD-RBM1000. I purchased this model in 2012, and it continues to work well for our family. The third generation (and currently the newest model) is the SD-RBM1001. According to reviews on Amazon Japan's website, the latest model is said to be quieter than the older models.Hope that helps!
